From today's Washinton Times, this has got me torqued!
Licking bonuses
The nation's largest taxpayer-advocacy group is calling on the U.S. Postal Service to abandon its plans to distribute more than $200 million in executive bonuses before year's end.
"For USPS to give out hundreds of millions of dollars to its executives this year would be unconscionable," says Citizens Against Government Waste Vice President Leslie K. Paige.
Between 1996 and 2000, the USPS passed out more than $1.4 billion in bonuses, including $284 million last year, when it lost money.
Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., North Carolina Republican, introduced a sense of the House resolution this year to prohibit the distribution of bonuses in years when the USPS operates at a deficit.
How much in the red is the Postal Service?
On Tuesday, it reported a $1.7 billion loss for this fiscal year. As a result, the Postal Service now foresees raising the price of a first-class postage stamp from 34 cents to 37 cents.

Originally Posted By fiver, "I bought my wife an iPad 3G. Life is fucking grand. Anybody who thinks the iPad is over priced doesn't understand that you can't put a price on silence. I'd have paid a good 2K for that motherfucker."

Services such as mail delivery unfortunately lay in the hands of the government because the private sector could/would not take on such a task. In urban enviroments
it would be fine, but wouldn't you be pissed when you had to put on an extra 10 stamps on a piece of mail because you enjoyed living in the country.
-bc

Well, the USPS can adapt to the times or end up going the way of the Dodo bird.
The only thing raising the rates will do is make online billpay, ETF of funds, email, ect. look more and more attractive as alternatives to using USPS.
It will reduce the amount of junk mail as they switch more and more to Spam (at least you can filter that crap and never even have to see it :) )
Oh, almost forgot the anthrax too. Norton scans my inbound email. Will they scan my real mail to protect me?